Maize production in Zambia is characterized by significant yield gaps attributed to nutrient management and climate change threatens to widen these gaps unless agronomic management is optimized. Insights in the impacts of climate change on maize yields and the potential to mitigate negative impacts by ...
Other hydrological parameters such as soil moisture also shows a higher correlation to crop yield in Zambia (Vergopolan et al., 2021). In this study, VPD was selected as the drought sensitive variable (Lobell et al., 2014). Though it has a moderate anti-correlation with precipitation and ...
Capacity Process 50T maize in 24Hours Product type maize grits, maize flour, maize bran; Product yield maize grits: about 45-55%, maize flour: about20-30%; maize bran: 25% or so; maize grits and maize flour total yield: 70-80% Sand content in final product not more than 0...
Nitrogen improves the composition of proteins in grain, but in excess it is harmful to human health. The objective of the study was to determine the effect of nitrogen in genotypes of maize on a) occurrence of phenological phases, (b) dry matter production and yield, (c) water and ...
Maize ear rots are among the most important impediments to increased maize production in Africa. Besides yield loss, they produce mycotoxins in their host whose contamination has been linked to several human and animal mycoses. The main objectives of the studies reported on in this thesis were (...
Modeling maize yield responses to improvement in nutrient, water and cultivar inputs in sub-Saharan Africa Maize yields in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are at the lower end of the global range of yields since decades. This study used the large-scale agricultural cro... C Folberth,Y Hong,T Ga...
The relationship between farm size and productivity has long been a topic of debate in development economics. Using farm-level panel data from 2003 to 2013, we investigate the relationship between maize yield and farm size in Northern China. After controlling for farm-specific characteristics, we ...
The objective of this study was to calibrate and the Crop Environment Resource Synthesis CERES-Maize (DSSAT v 4.8) model to simulate crop growth, yield, and nitrogen dynamics in a long-term conservation agriculture (CA) based maize system. The model was also used to investigate the relationship...
World production ofmaize(corn;Zea mays) is over 800 million tonnes annually (Table 1). However, only approximately 14% is used directly for human food and approximately 10% is industrially processed to yield oil and other products for human consumption. Maize is grown in tropical and warm temp...
Water balance and maize yield following improved sesbania fallow in eastern Zambia Sesbania [ Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.] fallows are being promoted as a means for replenishing soil fertility in N-depleted soils of small-scale, resource-... E Phiri,H Verplancke,F Kwesiga,... - 《Agrofores...